To think we should still be sticking to the rules?

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I feel a bit of an idiot, I've been sticking to the uk lockdown rules since day one. I've been on Facebook today and seen friends going to parties, groups bigger than 6. I've specifically not done any gathering more than 6 because I thought this was the rule. Am I being silly ?

People not whole

What's the point of being alive if your not living? I hope you have all got rid of your cars (38,000 + people dead in road accidents last year) I hope you have drowned your pets ( they could have tb) I hope you have disconnected your electricity and gas (A lot more chance of being dispatched in a household accident) being alive means you can die . The only thing certain about life Is death. You can hide at home but if we all do that then sooner rather than later the money will run out. Then we'll all starve. There will be no more power grid . If everyone thought like you there will nothing left. If the economy dies we all die. Switch off the fucking news and look forward.

I've just been watching the BBC news and the staff/pupils/friends paying tributes to the men murdered in Reading, they were standing so close to each other. It looked wrong.

@Fiddlersgreen

We have been following the rules but I’ve been forced back to work this week (non-essential retail) and I’ve found my customers do not understand/care about social distancing. I’m also having to get the bus. I feel like I might as well have not bothered trying to be so careful the past 12 weeks

@Fiddlersgreen I am due to return to work (Non essential retail) and I'm dreading it! I just know that customers are going to take the mick. I also have to get the bus!

@ActualStork223

What's the point of being alive if your not living? I hope you have all got rid of your cars (38,000 + people dead in road accidents last year) I hope you have drowned your pets ( they could have tb) I hope you have disconnected your electricity and gas (A lot more chance of being dispatched in a household accident) being alive means you can die . The only thing certain about life Is death. You can hide at home but if we all do that then sooner rather than later the money will run out. Then we'll all starve. There will be no more power grid . If everyone thought like you there will nothing left. If the economy dies we all die. Switch off the fucking news and look forward.

I know what you mean, I feel like I'm just existing now and I'm sure there are plenty of threads on here saying the same. I will get some normality when I go back to work next week but I'm also dreading it, scared of being coughed on because leading up to the lockdown, I was coughed on by many customers! I'm sure retail workers will have had this happen too.

@youkiddingme

We are but we know lots of others around here aren't. DH was talking to a friend today (on phone). The friend was saying how he's trying to social distance at work (in a carpet shop) but a customer came up and but her hand on his arm to pull him to where she wanted him. And the customer is an NHS worker. How are you supposed to social distance when others won't?

Feel bloody sorry for your friend. I know how they feel to have someone grab you for help.

To be frank I think it is now time to start opening up and getting the economy moving again. I'm a director of a large company- we've been trying everything possible to avoid redundancies so far including managers taking 70% pay cuts, stopping all recruitment and closing offices.

We have held out as long as possible in the hope that business would pick up, but we are now putting the business at risk if we don't take action. So we are going to have to discuss a major cost reduction plan at board level tomorrow and that is likely to result in a third of the workforce being made redundant.

It is the last thing any of us wanted to do and we had ambitious expansion plans pre-Covid, but I worry that the cure is now becoming worse than the virus- particularly for young people. I'm also going to have to tell the 20 graduates we had due to start in September that we no longer have jobs for them.

Our youngsters have suffered enough and it is time their futures were prioritised and we start opening up faster.

Those of you who haven't broken any rules, how long are you willing to stay apart from friends and family?

To be frank I think it is now time to start opening up and getting the economy moving again. I'm a director of a large company- we've been trying everything possible to avoid redundancies so far including managers taking 70% pay cuts, stopping all recruitment and closing offices.

We have held out as long as possible in the hope that business would pick up, but we are now putting the business at risk if we don't take action. So we are going to have to discuss a major cost reduction plan at board level tomorrow and that is likely to result in a third of the workforce being made redundant.

And unfortunately your company is not alone. As good as the Furlough payments have been, I think it's led a lot of people into a false sense of security and in the next few weeks a lot more redundancies are going to be announced.

I think the majority of people will continue to follow the rules. But we do need to get somewhere close to normal.

Those of you who haven't broken any rules, how long are you willing to stay apart from friends and family?

From July I will be able to start seeing friends in 2m distanced groups of up yo 6. I can wait until then

As I live only with my DC, I have met a friend for a (distanced) walk

It does feel as I’ve been getting out a lot recently!

I work for the NHS where it is drummed I to us every day how important it is to maintain social distancing at every opportunity - we’re down a group of 20 staff because one of them tested positive and they hadn’t been social distancing so the rest of the dept have to self isolate for 14 days. The knock on effect of that is big!

I have met the in- laws in the garden, maintaining social distancing.

I have met friends one at a time for a walk in the local country park - it was easy to maintain social distancing.

None of the rest of my family live in Wales let alone anywhere near the 5 miles guidance so that’s just not a possible yet. Zoom calls are great though.

I'm only sticking to the rules because I'm loving WFH and lockdown life in general.

but a customer came up and but her hand on his arm to pull him to where she wanted him.

Well that is just rude whatever the circumstances.

I have been sticking to the rules (proper ones) but there isn't really much to post on FB is there if you are, so you just end up with a skewed perspective.

My family live too far away, I am trying to work out if it is logistically possible to go down in a few weeks, but it will involve an overnight stay (hotel) so I need to really plan it out in my head.

We have followed all the rules, I haven't seen any of my friends except when I bumped into someone in tesco of all places where we had a very quick distanced chat. My children haven't seen their friends. We are coping fine. There must be something wrong with us because all I see are comments and social media posts about how children NEED their friends. Mine are quite happy with whatsapp and sometimes video calls. Perhaps it is because we are usually fairly independent and they don't tend to see friends outside of their activities and school anyway plus my closest friends live miles away. or maybe we are just very antisocial I am not sure. But I really haven't found sticking to the rules hard.